The kitchen backsplash tile is in and today the grout is being done. It’s nice and sparkly in the morning sun but you can’t see that in the pictures.
Feb 282006
Feb 272006
I really really fixed the leak under Dar’s bathroom sink now. The water supply lines where they met the faucet were loose. I was able to hand turn each one at least another half turn.
Also after watching splash patterns with the glass shower doors and how the water gets to the floor outside the shower I realized what was going wrong. There are rubber guides at each end that have space for a specific door, indicating how they should be in place during a shower. That puts the inner door closest to the shower head which when water hits the bottom of it, bounces under and on to the floor. The outer door should be the one by teh shower because there is a lip on the other side to prevent the splash, but the rubber guides don’t allow it and have a gap by the wall so then the wall gets wet.
I was prepared to pull off the rubber guides and glue then back in the correct position, but when I pulled them off I found they covered a metal bracket what allowed me to flip it upside down and snap into position. 4 snaps later and water in the shower should now stay in the shower.
Feb 262006
I was being good and productive this weekend. I returned some lights to Costco, I exchanged a light cover at Riverside Lighting, I put Frontline on the dogs, I got my Allegra prescription refilled, I did the recycling, and picked up everything the dogs had left in the last few days in the back yard (but not all the plusses from when they ate a box of tile separators).
Then I decided that today would be the day to finally run the bathroom vent for Dar’s bathroom. I had all the parts I had all the tools. I was going to run it to the side under the eaves like the contractor had done for our bathroom on the other side of the house. I went into the attic crawl space and made my way to the spot on the door (luckily the previous owners had put an old door up there to work on). I brushed the insulation out of the way and found a beam blocking my way to the outside edge, enough so I wouldn’t be able to get the duct in there without. Then I realized that the contractor had the luxury of having no ceiling in place, so now I have to find another way.
Oh yeah. I also got the taxes done and cleaned out the rain gutters.
Feb 262006
Last night I watched The Cookout while I sorted recycling. This movie had potential, but I think the first-time screen writers and directors killed that. The comedy is often forced and that leaves you wanting more drama out of it. I think the direction of a light-hearted drama would have been a good direction for it to go. It works has background entertainment while you do something else though.
Feb 232006
Just one more picture of the end cap.
Last night we painted the living room and the color looks good but it needs a second coat.
Today the lighting stuff gets installed.
Feb 222006
Yesterday they installed most of the counter tops. It’s Caesarstone Oyester, 3cm thick. They have to put in the other end cap/vertical counter and cut holes for the faucet today.
Also some pictures of the bathroom wall tile grouted. I think it looks really good and everything is starting to look like what it’s supposed to look like.
Feb 212006
The plasterers were supposed to come yesterday to build out the wall/column in the kitchen that had the wrong measurement in the plans. They didn’t come. So they were supposed to come at 8AM today to fix it before the counter installers come at 9AM because it’s supposed to be done before the counters. They aren’t here yet.
Despite all that I’m feeling like things are coming together and I’m catching up. Yesterday I woke up at 4:13AM and was able to enter the last 9 months of 401K data. This morning I woke up at 3:43AM, but then I laid in bed for awhile before deciding that I really was awake and caught up on 9 months of filing that needed to get done. One more morning like that and I’ll have the taxes done!
Feb 192006
Looks like the last paitning adventure killed the power roller. Well, I think I can bring it back if I take it apart and clean it, but I needed to do a second coat ont he living room ceiling and I can’t give my dad back a broken power roller so I got a new one. The new one also has improved cleaning instructions so it’s squeaky clean after an afternoon of use.
The ceiling looks good and even now, and we decided to make the entry way the same color so all that’s left is to paint the living room walls. If Nicole does the edging tomorrow then I can do the walls in no time tomorrow night.
Feb 182006
I replaced the angle-stops, but then I turned the water back on the hot water valve was still leaking slightly. So I turned off the water again and tightened it another turn and now it’s fine. Buying one of each size it might be worked so now I have to return the others to OSH, but it’s better than making multiple trips.
Then I replaced the flexible part of the drain which is ridged. I was told by the inspector when I moved in that stuff collects in the ridges and it isn’t good for health. Since I was there I decided it was time to replace that too and I learned that the inspector was right, that section was nasty and the other parts were pretty clean. I cut the pipe to size using drywall saw because I couldn’t find the hack saw. I got it all assembled and still felt a drip, the connection between the pipe and sink was leaking. I undid that pipe to find that it was part of the drain itself, so I put it back. I tightened it as much as I could which was far tighter than it was before and now there isn’t any leak that I can tell.
Feb 172006
The bathroom tile is now done and next up is the grout.
On Tuesday we get the counter tops installed in the kitchen.
This weekend plasterers come to finish the wall in the laundry room, the patch in the tv room, the wall in the office. Most importantly, they are going to complete the wall going to waht used to be the closet and re-texture our whole bedroom, so tonight we get to move our bed into the living room and sleep there this weekend.
Also this weekend, replacing the leaky bathroom faucet valves and drain pipe in Dar’s bathroom, hopefully installing the proper vent for the water heater, and installing the vent tube for the bathroom fan in Dar’s bathroom.